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That would depend on your

preferred medium, and

what tech you’re trying to

use – chipping away at a block of

marble with the corner of an iPad

won’tgetyouveryfar.Ifyou’rea

digital artist, it’s important to get as

much control as you possibly can.

Apentablet,suchastheWacom

Intuos Pro Medium ($499) hooked

up to your computer’s USB port

offersamuchmoregranularlevel

of control and adding pressure

sensitivity. Better still, an iPad Pro

($979) with an Apple Pencil ($145),

because you can draw on the

screen without the jarring

disconnect between pen and

cursor. Better better still – Wacom’s

Cintiq line (the $3,699 Cintiq

27QHD is the best) is the business,

and Microsoft’s painfully priced

$4,699 Surface Studio, greatly

enhanced by the $150 Surface Dial

peripheral, is probably the best

draw-on-screen experience going.

For more traditional media,

GaGu has a few suggestions.

Moleskine’s Pen+ Ellipse ($339) can

translate pen sketches into digital

versions which you can work on

later. If you want to go the other

way, why not consider pointing a

projector at your canvas and using

it as a guide? Something cheap like

the Sony MP-CL1A ($749), is all you

need – then it’s up to you to go

town with the pencils and oils.

Speaking of which, there’s been

alotoftechnologicalinvestmentin

paint hues. Look at Stuart Semple’s

extra-bold pigments – the really-

very-blackBlack2.0,madeasa

snipe against the exclusivity of

Vantablack, and PINK, which is, er,

pink. Butso pink.

Cantechhelpme make better art?

TOM G, LIVERPOOL

Apentablethookeduptoyour

computer’sUSBportoffersa

much more granular level of

control and pressure sensitivity

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